After being said by his friend, Aulus perked up. He stood up and nodded, saying, "This is exactly what we should do. Speaking of which... the distance is so close. We are here to be messengers, so we might as well speed up our pace."
, Arrive there soon. Didn’t you say..."
Aulus suddenly froze mid-sentence, looking at the sky and thinking hard. Marcus smiled slightly, "I didn't say unnecessary words, but... Tang Dynasty had a saying, 'Friends from afar'
Arriving is one of the great pleasures in life. We can indeed appear more sincere if we arrive a little after our travels... Let's go."
The fleet set off again and left the Andaman Islands.
Due to the numerous classic battles that took place in later generations, this archipelago, located on a major trade route, should have been unknown and unnoticed in this era.
However, on this day, the Andaman Islands unexpectedly received a group of guests, and...
Like later generations, he is a special guest. One can't help but think of... "the smell of fate", so to speak.
And there are still countless places in the world today with messengers like Aulus and Marcus, as well as the fleets controlled by the messengers. The reason...
Very simple.
In today's Roman Empire, the shipbuilding industry has finally developed...
And thanks to the contributions of many philosophers in the early years of the European continent, especially mathematicians like Euclid, the European shipbuilding industry not only developed, but also developed very quickly!
In short, the current Roman Empire is very strong. Whether it is the grain-producing area in northern Africa or the shipbuilding industry that supports the Mediterranean, it is not inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty.
So here comes the question. We all know that the strength of the Chinese Empire is not inferior to that of the European continent, so... what is the strong point of China. One of the reasons is of course the wealth of philosophy, and the wealth of philosophy is relative to the poverty of philosophy.
On this point, the bastard literati and market swindlers of later generations were unable to interpret the philosophical essence of ancient religions, so these things were not well-known in later generations. However, this is not the key point, or it may not be important in this era.
The problem is, the literati in power are the type who can decipher the practical information.
On the other hand, the command is the army.
Seventy percent of Blue Star's surface area is the ocean. But 100% of humans live on land.
In ancient times, no matter how good the ships were, they still had nothing to do against the army. In later generations... the rapid development of medium-range missiles also gradually destroyed the navy's strategic dominance. The navy's ability to suppress the army belongs to a special period.
The reason for this special product is that industrial countries have reduced the dimensionality of agricultural countries, and non-sea power can really suppress land power.
but……
At the current stage, due to the existence of the natural barrier of the Pamir Plateau, although the seal is gradually loosening, China is still unable to transport its army to every corner of Dou Qi Continent on a large scale.
Therefore, in this era, the battle... is actually still food production and shipbuilding industry. Although the latter seems to be temporary and will be eliminated by the land-based long-range strike system in the future, it is still a powerful weapon for now.
, is also the main means for the two empires to compete with each other, and in this regard...
The Roman Empire was really no worse than its good brothers. But...
Today, Rome is experiencing a strange renaissance, and since there has been a renaissance... In addition to unexpectedly receiving the blessing of a large number of technological points, on the other hand, just like China, there have been strategists with extremely formidable vision.
Excellent strategists and the material foundation of strategists are the necessary and sufficient conditions for the revival of an empire. There must be no less and no more. And Rome, with its outstanding strategists, of course...
He also gained insight into the fact that the Tang Empire's army had strange and dangerous potential - in other words, judging from the fact that the surrounding countries of the Tang Empire were successively destroyed, and there were even quite a few battles that penetrated without casualties, the strength of the Tang Empire's army
It doesn't take much strategic vision to see it.
The strength of the army means the strength of the grassroots, which is also the most profound and real vitality of all empires in history. Faced with this situation... Roman strategists will naturally not just sit back and wait to be beaten. Of course, they will
own activities.
Once this becomes active, of course it will still be a vertical and horizontal series. And...
The docile forces in Mobei, which were governed smoothly and harmoniously in the Han Dynasty, became active again in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. After hundreds of years of prosperity in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, they were finally suppressed by the Tang Dynasty one by one.
County admission and treatment. At this stage...
For Rome, the original best partners for alliance were of course the countries in the northern part of the Tang Empire, but now they have been wiped out one after another, so the main direction of alliance naturally became the Japanese countries in the sea to the east of the Tang Empire, or the Tang Dynasty.
The southeastern kingdoms in the southern seas of the empire.
If the northern countries of the Tang Empire were still there... then it would be easy to say. In fact, it is possible to use the southern or northern parts of the Tang Empire as the main targets of joint diplomacy. But now that all the northern countries have been destroyed, only the southern ones are left.
country, and the southern countries... their own military potential is significantly lower than that of the northern countries of the Tang Empire. In terms of putting pressure on the Tang Empire, there is no pressure from the northern countries, and only the southern countries are clearly showing
It has a somewhat unique taste.
The emergence of this situation was as exciting as it was within the Tang Empire, but it was also worrying outside the Tang Empire, and this worry...
In fact, it is also the real main driving force behind the argument between Aulus and Marcus just now.
After all, if the Tang Empire was just an ordinary small country, there would be nothing to argue about. Whether it was military or diplomatic, it could be easily handled. But now that the situation is like this, as a diplomatic envoy of the Roman Empire... he can only do his best.
May work towards establishing deeper diplomacy!
And this kind of diplomacy also means that the Roman Empire needs to double the benefits to the southern countries of the Tang Empire. Of course...
Such doubling of profits is an ominous sign in itself, an inappropriate example... If a boy A pursues a girl, and the girl usually doesn't pay much attention to A, then...
If one day, this girl suddenly becomes gentle towards X and takes the initiative to talk to him, then there is actually only a small probability that the girl is moved by X, but the real situation must be that the girl's purpose is for another boy X knows.
Second.
It is exactly this situation that Southeast Bay is facing now. Of course...
Most people don’t have strategic sense. This requires special psychological construction and philosophical cognition, and Southeast Asia...